Whispering Time Duet - Time of Society and Time of Freedom (1890s) Bergson, "Time and Freedom"

Whispering Time Duet - Time of Society and Time of Freedom (1890s) Bergson, "Time and Freedom"
Bergson described two layers of time in which human beings live. The first is the external time that is essential to social life, homogenized by clocks and shared in a divisible form. This time is necessary for scheduling, collaboration, and the functioning of institutions, but it also trumps the quality of consciousness and emotional fluctuations. On the other hand, duration, the internal time on which Bergson based his theory of freedom, is an undividable time in which past experiences permeate the present and emotions and memories overlap. The actions that emerge from this are creative events that cannot be explained by external causality, and freedom is a qualitative leap that occurs in the depths of persistence. Contemporary neuroscience and psychology also confirm the decision-making process in which memory expectations and emotions overlap, and the expansion and contraction of subjective time, showing the discrepancy between social time and internal time. Freedom is un
derstood not in terms of measurable time, but in terms of an undulation of persistence that flows deep within.